Amon Goeth

Amon Goeth (11 December 1908-13 September 1946) was an SS Haumptsturmfuhrer of Nazi Germany who was the commandant of the Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland during World War II.

Biography
Amon Goeth was born on 11 December 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. In 1927 he joined the anti-Semitic Heimwehr nationalist paramilitary group, but in 1930 he dropped his membership to join the Austrian Nazi Party and the Austrian SS. In 1933 he was arrested by the Austrian Republic for his role in the assassination of President Engelbert Dollfuss and other SS activities, and after the Anschluss in 1938 he served in the SS of Nazi Germany. Goeth was assigned to be commandant of the Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland, and on 3 September 1943 he took part in the liquidation of 25,000 Jews in Tarnow (45% of the city's population), the liquidation of the Szebnie concentration camp and its 4,000 Jews and 1,500 Poles, and the murder of 12,000 people at Plaszow. On 13 September 1944 he was arrested for theft of Jewish property, failure to provide adequate food to prisoners under his command, and violating camp rules. On 13 September 1946, he was executed by hanging in Warsaw, Poland for war crimes, and his last words were "Heil Hitler!".